Partizan Brewing

Microbrewery in Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
Grange Farm, Welham Road, Thorpe Langton, LE17 7TU, England
Description
Our journey began with the end of founder and owner Andy Smith's former career in fine dining. An avid home-brewer, Andy sought to make fresh exciting beer that was difficult to find here in the UK. A move from his home town of Leeds to London soon presented the opportunity to work with Andy Moffat at Redemption Brewing in Tottenham. Here he studied and learned to ply his trade as a professional brewer whilst making many friends and contacts in the fast growing UK beer scene. In 2012, one of these friends, Evin O'Riordain of The Kernel Brewery kindly offered to pass on their original brew kit as the Kernel embarked upon expansion. A short time later, some premises secured just down the railway line, and Kernel and Partizan were established as neighbors; so the brewery was born.

The brewery relocated late 2017 from Almond Road to its current location.

Today

Ten years later and much like other small breweries across the UK Partizan has faced tough trading conditions; namely the lasting effects of the pandemic, soaring inflation and increasing rent. To both protect Partizan and avoid chasing inflation and increasing prices, the brewery moved its production out of London in 2023 to a farm in Market Harborough in rural Leicestershire, locating it at long-time friends, Langton Brewery.

We are now expanding the brewery here, on the farm. By Spring 2024 we will have a new fermenter hall and a greater capacity than we ever had in London which will allow us to brew exciting new beers and to collaborate with old friends and new. Despite the draw of the countryside our roots are still in London and we will continue to meet the demands of our customers in the city that we still call home.

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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Voldby Købmandsgaard thanks to and shared with the in-laws - Hazy golden coloured pour with a white head. Fruity with notes of orange, grapefruit, citrus peel, medium body, piney medium bitter hoppy finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Extra Hop IPA Cascade, Centennial Chinook BBC on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:36 - Score: 7

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2019 at 18:51


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Voldby Købmandsgaard thanks to and shared with the in-laws - (4.5abv new version/label) light hazy golden yellow coloured pour with a white head. Citrus fruity with notes of lemon and grapefruit, straw, grass, medium to light body and carbonation, bitter hoppy finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Pale Ale Citra on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:36 - Score: 7

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2019 at 18:29


7

To ta? Ale gajnie smaczna, slodka, owocowa, chlalna. Duzo owocow. Sups schowane alko. Soczkowata. B mi pasi, z plusem

Tried from Draft at Jabeerwocky on 25 Jan 2019 at 16:05


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours slightly pale, transparent, with minimum foam. Aroma is orange peel, lemon, slightly vinous. Remember some soaps. Body is average, like carbonation. Taste is moderately sweet, with minimum bitterness and a slight hint of sour. Finish is fairly long, vegetal and slightly spiced.

Tried from Draft on 21 Jan 2019 at 17:54


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

19th January 2019
Hazy gold beer, big fluffy white head. Airy palate, fairly dry, decent fine carbonation. Light malts bring a barely there sweetness. Hop dust leaves a bitterish taste. Thin citrus. A little spice on the finish. It's okay but not exciting me at all.

Tried on 19 Jan 2019 at 18:23


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Six D, Aberdeen. It pours rich oily amber with a bubbly white cap. The aroma is rich, oily, sweet, sticky, peppery spice upfront, honeyed fruits, melon, stewed pear and fruit cake. The taste is dry, bitter, peppery spice, warming, oily, boozy alcohol kick, grass, straw, bitter orange peel, herbal accents and some honeydew melon with a lingering bitter, peppery finish. Medium body, fine carbonation and oily mouth - feel. I find it a bit heavier and oilier that the beer they are emulating. Fun anyhow.

Tried on 15 Jan 2019 at 16:26


7

Rzeskie, polpelne / polslodkie ale lekkie, ladnie nachmielone z mini szmatka jakas w tle. Brzoskwinie, cytrusy, mango jakbym strzelal. Cacy

Tried from Draft at Jabeerwocky on 14 Jan 2019 at 17:43


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up at Sourced Marylebone. Pours unclear yellow with a frothy, pure white head. The nose holds dry green herbs, sage, thyme, saison yeast. Light sweet flavour with some grassy bitterness, lemon zest, wheat flakes, sage. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Pretty clean on the finish, further herbal notes, lemon peel. Pretty fun.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jan 2019 at 22:34


Tried on 31 Dec 2018 at 16:09


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at Pigs Ear 2018, day one, 04/12/18. Hazed golden orange with a big old cream cap. Nose is pine resin, ripe orange pith, grapefruit, mango pulp, soft breads, citric tinged straw. Taste comprises ripe tropcial fruits, light mineral tickle, pine needle, grapefruit, mango, sticky fruits. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close splashed with juicy hop bitterness. Another solid DIPA from Partizan ... probably the style they have done best for me in the past year or so.

Tried on 31 Dec 2018 at 12:56